Rule spot mappings

For a rule to be used on your Web site, it must be mapped to an existing content spot. A rule spot mapping is merely an association between a content spot and a rule. Changing the rule that is executed in the run-time environment is as easy as mapping a different rule to a content spot.

You create rule spot mappings within the Personalization workspace. A Web site's Normal View contains a list of all the content spots in your project to which you can map rules. You can change the personalization behavior of your Web site by mapping a different rule to a given content spot.

Although only one rule is executed when a content spot bean is invoked, you can have multiple rules simultaneously mapped to a content spot by using campaigns. When you create a campaign, you can create a separate set of rule spot mappings for any or all of the content spots in your project. When a Web site visitor views a page with a content spot, a campaign's rule spot mappings take precedence over those of the Normal View, so its rules are used instead.

When multiple campaigns are simultaneously active, campaign priorities and splits are used to determine the rule to execute. When multiple active campaigns have the same priority, the splits are used to calculate a percentage chance that one mapping will be used instead of the others.

Splits can be changed for each rule spot mapping.

Rule pot mappings can be duplicated and moved from one campaign to another. The rule spot mapping's start and end date may both be modified if they fall outside the range of dates for the campaign to which the spot mapping is moved. Multiple mappings can be added to the same spot within a campaign (not the Normal View).


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